Michael Gordon

Introduction

The service offers users numerous ways to meet, including through events and an algorithm which they claim is even more clever than the most popular dating sites.

But does this award-winning service really increase your odds of finding love?

I signed up to learn more.

Signing Up

You can sign up for Lovestruck by creating an account on their site or by using your Facebook information.

Your “love story” begins by selecting your gender, the gender of the partner you are looking for, and an age range.

Once selected you can create a username and provide further account information.

Finally, to complete your registration, you must upload a photo and provide your job title.

Your profile must be approved before you can use it. You can expedite this process by answering questions about your nationality, religion, height, and more. You can skip any question you don’t want to answer.

Whether this actually speeds up the approval process is unclear and even after filling out the profile questions I was informed it could take up to 24 hours (!) to confirm my account.

In the meantime, however, I was able to browse matches.

Ease of Use

The Lovestruck homepage provides you with what the service’s algorithm believes to be your best matches.

It is easy to figure out how to “heart” a match, remove a match, or even message a match, as these buttons appear front-and-center over each profile image.

You can navigate to different sections of the website using a menu bar that appears on every page.

From there you can access your matches, messages, a premium matchmaking feature, and events.

Features

Apart from the standard dating features on the site, Lovestruck also offers a professional matchmaking consultant.

Dubbed Lovestruck Infinity, the service is designed for people who don’t want to spend time sorting through irrelevant matches.

Instead, you will get verified results delivered to you in addition to a counselor who works on your schedule.

This is a pretty novel idea that enables you to use the dating website platform in a unique way.

Lovestruck also hosts live events where you can meet people who use the service in person. Many of them offer free entry.